Breast asymmetry: literature review and a new proposal for clinical classification by Gladstone Eustáquio de Lima Faria, Dov Charles Goldenberg, Ricardo Frota Boggio

“…These available classifications date from the 60s and 70s and need to be updated to the current clinical context. A more simplified and reproducible classification was proposed after a comprehensive literature review, considering the most frequent asymmetries in aesthetic plastic surgery offices, with their respective treatment guides. …”
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The main drivers of labour cost dynamics in Central and Eastern European countries by Maria Denisa VASILESCU, Larisa STĂNILĂ, Amalia CRISTESCU, Maria Berta BELU, Silvana CRIVOI

“…Labour costs are a fundamental component of production expenses, significantly impacting both the quantity and quality of output. In the current European economic context marked by significant price increases, the paper aimed to empirically investigate the relationship between inflation and labour costs in the short and medium term. …”
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Determinant Factors of Green Marketing Adoption in the Hospitality Sector by Liviu B. Vlad, Dragoş C. Vasile, Octav-Ionuţ Macovei, Claudia E. Ţuclea

“…Green marketing is falling into the category of answers provided by the business world to the requirement to combine the economic development with the preservation of natural resources which represents a pressing concern of the modern times. In this context, the hospitality sector is facing as well an increasing pressure to pay attention to environmental issues, hotel organizations are increasingly tending to use environmentally friendly products and services, and to implement programs to manage energy and water consumption and waste. …”
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Administrative and legal regulation of urban planning activities of local government bodies by O. Artemenko, V. Yatsenko

“…The conducted research confirms that the implementation of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) should not only ensure compliance with legislative requirements but also fulfil a predictive function in assessing risks to the environment and public health. In the current context of increasing anthropogenic pressure, urbanisation stress, and environmental challenges caused by the consequences of war, such assessment is a key element in ensuring the sustainable development of territories. …”
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Global and regional trends of the century+ in the Middle East: A new interpretation by V. А. Kuznetsov, V. V. Naumkin

“…The second section analyzes current trends in regional development. It shows that though the most acute regional conflicts in the MENA region are gradually de-escalating, centrifugal tendencies are becoming more evident, as heterogeneity of political systems and regimes increases. …”
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Spatial Impacts of Urban Growth on the Mersin, Tarsus, and Adana Lines by Selin Yıldız Görentaş, Sevil Sargın

“…The urban areas have been sprawling on agricultural lands and seminatural areas, and current projects indicate that more such areas will be destroyed in the future. …”
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The experience of diagnosing the personnel potential of the theater: Approaches to analysis and development opportunities by Ol'ga M. Trofimova, Viktoriya V. Yurusova

“…The article presents the results of a study of the personnel potential of the cultural institution of the KOGAUK "Kirov Drama Theater" in the context of increasing the efficiency of the theater and the development of areas for its improvement. …”
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Advances in synthetic microbial ecosystems approach for studying ecological interactions and their influencing factors by Wei Jiang, Sumeng Wang, Fei Gu, Xiaoya Yang, Qingsheng Qi, Quanfeng Liang

“…This review consolidates current knowledge of synthetic microbial ecosystems and factors influencing their ecological dynamics. …”
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A Middleware for the Integration of Smart Grid Elements with WSN Based Solutions by Paulo Régis C. de Araújo, Raimir Holanda, Antonio Wendell de Oliveira Rodrigues, André Luiz Carneiro de Araújo, José de Aguiar Moraes Filho, João Paolo C. M. Oliveira

“…This automation enables the integration of elements such as Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) to the supervision of the distribution electrical system, but there is not an appropriate environment to increase the scale of these elements. In this context, the smart grid comes with specifications that allow adding new elements to the intelligence of the power grid operation. …”
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Credit Scoring on Cash Flow Table with Machine Learning: XGBoost Approach by Güner Altan, Server Demirci

“…In a group of companies, no matter how good a rating one company has in regard to its status within the parent company, if the other companies have low ratings, this may affect and reduce the consolidated rating. In this context, the current study focuses on groups of companies. …”
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Simulation and Assessment of Vertical Scaling for a Smart Campus Environment Using the Internet of Things by Mirza Abdur Razzaq, Javed Ahmad Mahar, Arif Mehmood, Gyu Sang Choi, Imran Ashraf

“…This study is expected to aid in determining the capabilities of current and upcoming smart transport systems in the context of smart campuses.…”
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Antifungal and anti-biofilm effects of hydrazone derivatives on Candida spp by Pierre Popczyk, Alina Ghinet, Clovis Bortolus, Laure Kamus, Marc F. Lensink, Jérôme de Ruyck, Boualem Sendid, Faustine Dubar

“…Worldwide, invasive candidiasis are a burden for the health system due to difficulties to manage patients, to the increasing of the resistance of the current therapeutics and the emergence of naturally resistant species of Candida. …”
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Trade and economic cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia: features and development priorities by A. M. Myrzakhmetova, D. U. Alshimbayeva, K. A. Turkeeva, A. T. Yerimpasheva

“…The main approach is to expand regional trade through the mechanism of participation in the Eurasian Union, the intensifi of corporate ties through the creation of joint ventures, based on the use of advanced scientifi technologies to increase the production of competitive products. The presented article reveals the current state of trade, economic and investment cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia in the context of the growing processes of globalization and regionalization. …”
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Journalism in the Digital World: The Conflict of Institutional Logics by Elena I. Kuznetsova

“…The main core of the media system’s existence, its institutional nature, is undergoing significant changes in the context of increasing technological convergence and the development of the economic phenomenon of platform capitalism. …”
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Measuring the Sciences Contribution to Socioeconomic Development: Russian Approaches in the Global Space of Ideas by A. A. Yanik

“…The review outlines the focus areas of scientific thought, the conceptual frameworks state, current approaches to measuring the contribution of sciences, the limitations and risks of the evaluation practice.Conclusions and Relevance: key areas of scientific thought in the subject under review for 100 years: (1) development of econometric approaches for measuring the «profitability» of science; (2) attempts to identify and measure the societal impacts of science; (3) scientific support of government experiments to use the evaluation technologies for increasing the return of budget investment to science; (4) conceptualizing and universalizing the terms. …”
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LEGITIMACY DEFICIT AND INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE: CHALLENGES AND WAYS TO OVERCOME by Nataliia Kononenko, Oleh Kononenko

“…The article analyzes the institutional capacity and legitimacy of governmental structures in Ukraine, particularly in the context of the current war. The main problem that undermines the effectiveness of the government is the regulatory and legal traps that arise from unreformed mechanisms of relations between the branches of government. …”
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To move or not to move? The housing preferences of a post-socialist city in the suburbanisation stage by Wiktor Błoch, Michał Mackiewicz, Mariusz Sokołowicz

“… Researchers of urban mobility patterns and residential preferences of urban dwellers increasingly inquire whether these processes are universal or place-specific. …”
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Role of self-regulation in controlling cyber loafing and smartphone addiction: Reducing health risk at the university level by Aisha Bibi, Asia Mushtaq, Wajeeha Aurangzeb, Sadaf Z. Ahmed, Mushtaq Ahmad

“…Additional factors such as students’ disengagement from tasks, lack of context familiarities, and the boring nature of the task or teaching method may increase the mobile addiction. …”
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Chemistry, Safety, and Challenges of the Use of Organic Acids and Their Derivative Salts in Meat Preservation by Olfa Ben Braïek, Slim Smaoui

“…Meat industries are constantly facing new waves of changes in the consumer’s nutritional trends, food safety, and quality requirements and legislations leading to an increase in interest for meat biopreservation to respond to all of these modern socioeconomic demands. …”
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Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany by Eden Hills

“…Since 2021, the public profile of a similarly reactionary GC movement has grown in Germany, coinciding with the current centre-left coalition government’s various trans-positive legal interventions. …”
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